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Buttered Rutabagas

Buttered rutabagas are a delicious and nutritious cool weather root vegetable. Simply boiled and seasoned with butter, they’re a excellent choice for a side dish with most entrees. Rutabagas are a common vegetable on Southern tables. We grew up knowing about rutabagas. However, I was embarrassingly old before I figured out the correct name. My...

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King Cake with Cinnamon Filling

King Cake is a pastry filled with brown sugar cinnamon filling and decorated with colored sprinkles. The shape and colors of King Cake are symbolic of Epiphany and rooted in Christian history.  The cake is popular during Mardi Gras season.    Growing up in Mobile, AL, the real birthplace of Mardi Gras in the US,...

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Brown Sugar Cinnamon Butter

Brown Sugar Cinnamon Butter is an easy compound butter to whip up. Use it on biscuits, pancakes, toast or sweet potatoes.  Compound butters are versatile and easy to make.  There’s just as many savory varieties as sweet. Simply choose your favorite flavor profile and mix it into softened butter. Despite its simplicity, compound butters are...

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Martha Washington Candy

Martha Washington Candy is a classic hand-rolled and hand-dipped candy that contains a pecan and coconut nougat with a chocolate coating. Researching the history of food is of significant interest to me.  I can’t say I’m as interested in researching the food as I am in eating the food, but it’s a close second. I...

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Alabama-style Slow Cooker Red Beans and Rice

Alabama-style Slow Cooker Red Beans and Rice is a Cajun inspired dish with an Alabama twist.   The traditional recipe for Red Beans and Rice uses andouille sausage, a Cajun ingredient.  I opted for Conecuh Sausage, an Alabama ingredient.  Based out of Evergreen, AL,  Conecuh Sausage  is the best commercial smoked sausage I’ve ever tasted....

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Slow Cooker Brown Sugar Pork Chops

Slow-Cooker Brown Sugar Pork Chops are bone-in pork loin chops seasoned with sweet and savory brown sugar rub cooked in a slow-cooker. Brown sugar and pork. Pork and brown sugar. Brown sugar and pork with just the right balance of sweet, savory and spice. Seriously. I could end the narrative right here and right now...

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Homemade Hot Chocolate Mix

Homemade Hot Chocolate Mix is a dry mix of cocoa, powdered milk, powdered sugar, expresso powder with a hint of cayenne pepper. The chocolate flavor gets a boost from semi-sweet chocolate chips. Keep this on hand during winter months. Guests love it and it makes great gifts.  Chocolate.  Saying the word is about all it...

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Stewed Summer Squash and Sweet Onions

Stewed Summer Squash and Sweet Onions is an easy side dish cooked in a cast iron skillet with butter and bacon grease until slightly caramelized.   Summer squash seems to be in endless supply. It’s one of those workhorse vegetables that grow well and produces in abundance. The vegetable is easy to prep.  The skin...

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Okra Fritters

Author: Rebecca Lang
Publisher: Andrews McMeel

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Zucchini Chocolate Chip Brown Sugar Muffins

Zucchini Chocolate Chip Brown Sugar Muffins are moist, flavorful, and easy to prepare. Warm flavors from brown sugar, cinnamon, and chocolate compensate for the somewhat grassy note of zucchini and makes for a nutritious , handheld  choice for breakfast, brunch, or snack.     Summer gardens overflowing with ready-to-pick produce is a wonderful, beautiful thing....

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